Actor Vince Vaughn came out full force in favor of the Second Amendment in a new interview with GQ magazine that was published on Monday. Vaughn, star of comedies such as Starsky & Hutch, Old School, Wedding Crashers and True Detective, told GQ that the Second Amendment isn't about "duck hunting," but it's about it's about the right of individuals ...More

Members of the Iran task force, a committee of former government officials and nuclear specialists that helps advise Congress, warned that the nuclear deal President Obama hopes to nail down this summer will bolster Tehran's influence in the Middle East.

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, I sat in the cafe of The Long Now Museum and Gallery on the San Francisco waterfront, scribbling in my notebook as a thirty-something white male founder/CEO told me, a thirty-something white male reporter, about his "experience company" and it's systematic warfare against painpoints. Drawing on my reserves of journalistic expertise, I didn't once groan out loud. But then, in the course of explaining his company's approach […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California state senators on Monday advanced a scaled-down version of a political ethics bill after the initial proposal was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who said it would complicate campaign disclosure rather than reduce influence.

(John Hinderaker) Germany's economy dominates the EU, but if demography is destiny–and it is–then, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues in the Telegraph, Germany is doomed. I had not realized that the numbers are so grim: Germany's birth rate has collapsed to the lowest level in the world and its workforce will start plunging at a faster rate than Japan's by the early 2020s, seriously threatening the long-term viability of Europe's leading economy. … The

Obama's Department of Justice is working on more than a dozen new gun control regulations it plans to implement apart from Congress before the end of the Obama administration. Department plans to issue new rules expanding criteria for people who do not qualify for gun ownership, according to the recently released Unified Agenda, which is ...More

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley is attempting to drive a wedge between Hillary Rodham Clinton and the party's key constituencies of young voters, Hispanics and the anti-Wall Street crowd, part of the former Maryland governor's come-from-behind strategy to break off support from a dominating front-runner.

(John Hinderaker) Something deep in the psyche of the Democratic Party prevents it from acknowledging that it, and its candidates, are awash in cash. Thus, we get stories like this one in the New York Times: "Democrats Seek a Richer Roster to Match G.O.P." Republican contenders have already secured hundreds of millions of dollars in commitments from a stable of billionaires, including a Wall Street hedge fund executive, a Las Vegas casino

More than any company, public or private, Twitter seems to draw one overreaction after another from a small collection of commentators, investors, agitators…. even insiders. The most recent was early investor Chris Sacca, the founder of Lowercase Capital, who wrote a breathtaking post called "I Bleed Aqua." Buried in a million disclaimers about how much he loved Twitter and couldn't live without it was this: "During all of these […]

Bruce Jenner, after undergoing hours of facial-feminization surgery, breast augmentation and hormone therapy, has revealed a new identity and name. The latest issue of Vanity Fair, features a large photo of Jenner as a woman with the caption "Call Me Caitlyn." The one-time Olympic gold medalist poses on the cover in a one-piece corseted lingerie outfit. "Bruce ...More

Here at Pando, we've put Dan Lyons' feet to the fire on a number of occasions. And not without good reason: His writing at Valleywag was mean, humorless, and — the most unforgivable sin of all for a writer — dull. He was fond of phrases like, "The jokes write themselves." (Sorry, Dan, they don't). And while the zeitgeist surrounding his popular "Fake Steve Jobs" blog was before […]

(Scott Johnson) A few years back I had a personal encounter with the guy who helped create the firestorm over alleged racial profiling in traffic stops. It came as the result of an invitation extended to me in 2002 by Minnesota Civil Liberties Union executive director Chuck Samuelson to debate the guy. The MCLU is the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Minnesota Civil Liberties Union. For a long time

Congress wants the Pentagon to spend more than $200 million to identify holes in U.S. weapons and communications software that could allow foreign militaries to disrupt or defeat advanced arms in cyber attacks. The House version of the $612 billion fiscal 2016 defense authorization bill warns that despite a 2013 Pentagon report warning of major vulnerabilities in the cyber security of weapons systems, the military is lagging behind in closing the software holes. The Senate version of the defense bill authorizes $200 million for a three-year cyber vulnerability assessment of all major weapons systems focusing on whether they can be hacked. An additional $75 million was authorized for the U.S. Cyber Command to rapidly obtain critical cyber warfare capabilities.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Questions about human rights violations by the Vietnamese government should have no bearing on whether the U.S. should fully remove its ban on lethal weapons' sales to Hanoi, Vietnam's defense minister said Monday after meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session.

But that program and several other post-Sept. 11 counter-terror measures ...

(Paul Mirengoff) As John notes below, Rand Paul has used his Senatorial prerogative to block the Patriot Act. As a result, its provisions will expire at midnight. A new Act will be passed, but probably not for at least 72 hours. Let's hope that terrorists worldwide respect Sen. Paul's prerogative and wait 72 hours before using using U.S. phone lines to plot attacks on U.S. interests. Rand Paul is concerned, as he

Dave Morin and Path get a lot of shit. Some of it is deserved, like the time Path breached user trust by stealthily uploading your address book up to the cloud. Mostly, though, it seems people don't like Morin because he's seemingly had an easy road—from a well-to-do family, landing in Silicon Valley and "lucking" into stints at Apple and Facebook, before getting ass-loads of money to launch his own app. […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas would make it easier for candidates to spread their messages through social media and would require lobbyists to publicly disclose whether tax dollars are financing their activities under a measure that received final legislative approval Sunday.